(Closed) The start of my rhinestone and crystal shoes… (pics)

My shoes came today so naturally I couldn’t wait at all and got started immediately.

Here are the shoes originally:

I taped them up for painting them silver, and had to cut that weird lump of black beads off. They were on there pretty good so I had to get an X-acto knife and really get under there to cut the threads and scrape the glue.

Then I did kind of a crappy job of painting since the silver on the outside bled through the tape to the inside of the shoe. I was originally going to leave it as is, but then I had to paint it to cover up the mess anyway. So I taped the soles really good and went for it:

Once that dried I got going on the glitter soles! I mixed extra fine glitter with Mod Podge and put it on with a felt paintbrush.

The soles are originally pretty textured but the glitter covers it pretty well and fills in the cracks.

Once I had painted the glitter/glue mixture on them, I sprinkled loose glitter over top to stick to the still-wet glue.

They are now drying on top of my fridge (away from my cat) and I will do another coat tomorrow of the glitter.

Still waiting on my rhinestones to arrive in the mail… But the glitter soles look awesome!! I did two coats and a final coat of just Mod Podge to “seal” it. My cat then knocked them off the counter and I was worried a bunch of glitter would fall off but nope! They’re holding it pretty well I think.